Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958-10-10 | 87 minutes
Plot Summary
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Cast
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Nikolai CherkasovCzar Ivan IV
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Serafima BirmanBoyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
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Pavel KadochnikovVladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
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Mikhail ZharovCzar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
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Amvrosi BuchmaCzar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
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Vsevolod PudovkinNikolay the Fanatic
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Mikhail KuznetsovFyodor Basmanov
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Alexander MgebrovNovgorod's Archbishop Pimen
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Andrei AbrikosovArchbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)
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Vladimir BalashovPyotr Volynets
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Eric PyryevIvan IV as a boy
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Mikhail NazvanovPrince Andrei Kurbsky
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Pavel MassalskyKing Sigismund of Poland
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Ada VojtsikElena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother
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Aleksandr RumnyovThe Stranger (uncredited)
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Sergei Stolyarov(uncredited)
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